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CALIENTE HANDICAPPING TEST Patrons to Compete for 00 Daily Prize, Which May Increase. Second to Eighth Races to Be Used at ! Border Course Schilling Moves I Into Post. AGUA CALIENTE, Mex., Nov. 18. George Schilling, elevated to the post of general manager of racing at Caliente for the fifty-day meeting opening Thanksgiving Day, spent his first day in his new post revamping plans for the public handicapping contest for which a 00 daily award is offered. Schilling announced that instead of asking spectators to name the first seven winners as originally planned, the contest would be for the seven races, second to eighth, inclusive. This change was made in order that those coming from afar for the racing here would not be shut out of the competition by missing the first race. Under the revised plans guests at the Thanksgiving Day races will be asked to select the seven winners starting with the second race. Their entries will have to be deposited in the special boxes ten minutes before post time for the second event. ACCUMULATE PRIZES. If anybody picks the required seven winners, he will be paid the 00. But if nobody meets this requirement, the purse for the following day will be ,000. Again if there is" no winner the Saturday allotment will be ,500. If the third day brings no winner, the purse for Sunday will be ,000. This somebody is sure to win. For if nobody picks the seven winners the contestant with the best handicapping record for Sunday will win the two thousand dollars. Schilling operated the same contest during the Spokane meeting last summer. He says there was almost as much interest in the handicapping event as in the races themselves. In addition to his post as general manager, Schilling will act as presiding steward. He is arranging the conditions for the opening day handicap, named for the governor of Baja California. It will be at six furlongs. Sundays feature will be over the mile and one-sixteenth route. Lorenzo Del Riccio started installing the photo chart system yesterday. This will enable spectators to see the finish of each race twice if they are not satisfied with the placing of the judges. After each event an image of the finish, four feet square, will be thrown on a screen under the grandstand, so that bettors may see exactly how the thoroughbreds came under the wire.
